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VOICE ... Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice. Air is expelled with the diaphragm as with ordinary breathing, and the pitch is altered with the vocal cords. With the lips closed, this is called humming. A piece of music that is sung is called a song; someone who sings is called a singer. Most singing involves shaping the voice to form words, but types of voice instrumental music which use open sounds or nonsense syllables ("vocables") also exist, for instance scat singing or yodeling. Solfege assigns certain syllables to notes in the scale ..."

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KAYLÉ BRECHER
Voice, Jazz, Contemporary, Classical, Musical Theatre, Composition and Lyric Writing

     Kaylé Brecher is an active recording artist/performer with four acclaimed CDs receiving airplay across the US, Europe, Australia, South America, Russia, and the Philippines, and a career that has included concerts, festivals, live radio, a TV documentary soundtrack, clubs and other fine venues. She has opened for Maynard Ferguson, Freddie Hubbard, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and Doc Severensen. She currently performs with different groups in the Philadelphia area and is working on her fifth CD.

Kaylé graduated Summa Cum Laude with a double major from Temple University and has a Bachelor of Music in both Jazz Composition/Arranging as well as Performance. While at Temple, she studied classical voice with Dr. Christine Anderson and Jazz Improvisation with saxophonist Larry McKenna. After Temple, she went on to study composition privately with Grammy award winning composer Michael Abene and Grammy nominated composer Jim McNeely and also has additional credits in Speech Pathology from West Chester University. Kaylé is a skilled improviser, a Billboard prize-winning songwriter, a former member of BMI Jazz Composer's Workshop in NYC and several of her compositions have been published by Freddie Hubbard's Hubtones.

Kaylé, a well-respected, warm, dynamic and inspiring educator, with vast knowledge of vocal technique, has more than twenty-five years of teaching experience, spanning across most genres. She teaches beginners through professionals, youths and adults, as well as teaching voice students for Camden County Community College (Jazz and/or Classical) in her CMA studio. Kaylé is a voting member of the Grammy Association and a member of NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing).

MARC DALIO
Voice

     Marc Dalio is a native of Sparta, New Jersey, a Cum Laude Graduate of Rowan University with degrees in Vocal Performance and Music Education and a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Boston University with his Masters in Music Education. Some of Marc"s stage credits include: Gaston and Beast, in the Broadway National Tour of Disney"s Beauty and the Beast (Best of Denver Award Winner, National Broadway Theatre Award Nominee, Metrolina Theatre Award Winner) the Broadway National Tour of Les Miserables, as well as leading roles in Miss Saigon, the American Premiere of Metropolis, West Side Story (Metrolina Theatre Award Winner), Pippin, South Pacific, Noises Off, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Most recently, Marc was seen in Songs for a New World in NYC. The first revival of the work since its premiere. Marc"s voice can be heard on the Original German Cast Recording of Disney"s Beauty and the Beast as Gaston, Imagination Productions Godspell as Judas, as well as Send Me an Angel by DJ Cosmos/Mythos, Angel=2 0Falls by Ayla, and Always Running by the Euphonics. Marc co-produced, arranged for and performed on A Wish for Christmas, a CD benefiting the Make a Wish Foundation. On Television, Marc has been seen on ABC"s Daytime Soap All My Children. He has Directed, Musically Directed and Conducted such shows as Song and Dance, Barnum, Little Shop of Horrors, Nunsense, Songs for a New Word, You"re A Good man Charlie Brown, South Pacific and Guys and Dolls. A passionate actor, musician, director and educator, Marc runs his private vocal and dramatic studio in NYC and NJ and has students performing on Broadway, touring throughout the US, Europe and Asia.

      For more information, please go to www.marcgdalio.com.

BILL DEAL
Voice

        As a Columbia recording artist, Bill has performed worldwide with his songstress wife Ro Muziani Deal as a headliner and opening act for Rodney Dangerfield, London Lee, and Henny Youngman. His TV credits include Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas, and the National Juvenile Diabetes telethon. As a record producer, Bill worked with the "Kinleys"-Grammy Award winners in 2000. Bill holds a Master of Music degree and was trained at Julliard School of Music. He is a certified voice and piano teacher and has been teaching for over 30 years to students of all ages.


JANINE DIAZ
Voice

        Janine Diaz is a singer and voice teacher working in the tri-state area. She grew up in Tampa, Florida, and in the fall of 2003, she moved to Philadelphia to attend the University of the Arts. In 2007, she graduated first in her class within the university's College of Performing Arts, earning a Bachelor's degree in Vocal Performance. In 2008, she received her Master's degree in Music Education. While attending UARTS she studied under Paul Adkins, Justin Binek, and Anne Sciolla. Janine enjoys the many types of music there are, and loves to be able to sing in not only different styles, but also different languages. Her experiences span the spectrum from musical theater, small jazz vocal ensemble, singer in a jazz trio/quartet, classical/opera singing, fronting a rock cover band, singing pop music, liturgical/church singing, studio recordings, and singing Hispanic music like salsa and Latin jazz. She is currently the bandleader of E-fusion Imagine - a band in EBE, which is one of the largest corporate band agencies in the tri-state area. She has sung with groups such as Ellas Y Amigos, Peter Nero and the Philly Pops, The UARTS Jazz Singers, and The UARTS Big Band.

As an educator, Janine Diaz has been working as a private voice and beginner piano teacher since 2004. Her teaching experience includes working at AMLA (Association of Latin American Musicians), The Music Place, her own private voice studio, and The Conservatory of Musical Arts. Janine believes in finding out each student's individual musical goals, and encouraging the students to reach those goals by giving them the tools they need to succeed. She rejoices in her students' everyday victories, and is sincerely happy to be sharing the gift of music with everyone she works with.


EVE MIEDEL
Voice

        Eve Miedel received a MM in Voice Performance and Pedagogy from Westminster Choir College, Princeton, NJ where she studied with Sharon Sweet and a BFA in Vocal Performance From Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA where she studied with Douglas Ahlstedt. She is employed as a chorister with the Opera Company of Philadelphia performing in Madama Butterfly and La Traviata this past year. Other opera credits include Berta in Rossini's Il barbiere di Silviglia under the direction of Will Crutchfield at the Carmoor Bel Canto Festival in New York, Hansel in Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, Morgana in Handel's Alcina and La princesse in L'Enfant et les sortileges. Musical theater credits include Bobbie (modified Bobby) in A Chorus Line, Anne in A Little Night Music and Cinderella in Into the Woods. Throughout her studies she attended various workshops in children's music, has directed the Princeton Presbyterian Church's Children Choir and will begin work with Tenth Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia's Children Music program Schola Cantorum in the fall. Eve has also been playing and studying the piano throughout her life and been teaching the piano for 3 years to ages 5-65.


MELISSA TEPPERMAN
Voice

        Melissa Tepperman has been teaching voice with the Conservatory of Musical Arts since 2008. An active performer in the South Jersey/Philadelphia area, she is currently in production as "Britney" for the film "Mayor Cupcake" with Lea Thompson (Back to the Future, Caroline in the City) and Judd Nelson (Brat Pack - The Breakfast Club, Suddenly Susan). A native of Lumberton, NJ, Melissa graduated from Rutgers University with a degree in Music, emphasis in Music Theatre. While she began her training with Judith Nicosia at Mason Gross School of the Arts, her passion lies in Music Theatre. She can be seen performing locally with "The Ritz Reveille", a costumed quartet specializing in the style of WWII/1940's. Melissa has been the drama instructor for Haddonfield Plays and Players Stage Kidz since January of 2007 directing 9 consecutive musicals for their program. In addition to teaching private voice students here at CMA, she is pursuing her Masters Degree in Education.


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